NON-RESIDENTS NAMED TO AGENCY

POMPANO BEACH -- Meeting for the first time, the Community Redevelopment Agency picked two non-residents to be its leaders.

The agency on Tuesday unanimously recommended Robert G. Kramer of Lighthouse Point as its first chairman and Richard Finkelstein of Fort Lauderdale as its vice chairman.

The City Commission is expected to accepted the recommendations on Tuesday.

Kramer is executive vice president of J.W. Charles Securities Inc. in Pompano Beach and part-owner of the Pompano Ledger. He also had served as chairman of a special Industrial Development Committee.

Finkelstein is a real-estate developer in Pompano Beach and had been chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Development Advisory Board.

Other agency members are Jeanette Copeland, a social worker; James G. Farris, a real-estate agent; Leander D. Fuller, a real-estate agent; Harold Scheer, a retired builder; and Chris D. Wheeler, a real-estate developer.

The new agency will work on a redevelopment plan for the city's northwest section, which encompasses about one-quarter of the city.

Planning and Growth Management Director E. Fred Kleingartner said the agency has the option of being independently staffed or working with its own staff as part of the city administration. Copeland and Kramer said that at least at the start, the agency should align itself closely with the city.